Scunthorpe Jobcentre advice for job seekers and people wanting to develop a career
GET HELP TO START OR DEVELOP A CAREER AT ANY AGE
IT IS that time of year again when more jobs come onto the market to support the summer season. It is always worth reviewing how you look for work to make sure it is gathering all available leads and opportunities.
More than ever there is a good offer for updating skills that could lead to a job or a better job and career.
The Skills Bootcamp page on Gov.uk has been updated and directs you to where you can find a Skills Bootcamp in the UK.
Skills Bootcamps help you develop new skills that employers are looking for.
They are a fantastic opportunity to train in a new industry or progress in your current career and there are hundreds available in numerous growing sectors and each Skills Bootcamp gives a guaranteed interview on completion. There is a growing demand for green jobs and jobs in the digital sector.
■■For more information visit www.skillsforcareers.education. gov.uk/pages/training-choice/ skills-bootcamp
Skills Bootcamps take up to 16 weeks to complete and they are flexible, so you can fit learning around your family or other commitments.
For most Skills Bootcamps, you do not need to have any previous knowledge in the subject. You must be 19 or over to be eligible.
If you have a Universal Credit work coach they will discuss your job seeking with you, however everyone can access job help by visiting jobhelp.campaign.gov.uk, which is a virtual work coach with information about skills, ensuring you have the necessary support to ensure you are prepared for applying for work and attending for interview to showcase your best abilities.
North Lincolnshire Council gather all the local jobs on one job page, this is a great resource when you are looking for work visit, www.northlincs.gov.uk/jobs
A good CV is required as that is how many employers recruit.
Again, the Jobhelp site will lead you onto The National Careers Service which has all the information you might need, alternatively you can contact them on 0800 100 900 and speak to an advisor.
Family and friends are a useful source of information and will look out for jobs for you.
The more people know you are looking, the more people can help you.
If you do not have digital skills to look for work then there is free access to computers in the libraries and community centres and the local colleges can support with very basic digital courses as well as more advanced ones.
Most jobs need some sort of digital skills nowadays so it is good to have an awareness, however the business will teach you their systems so do not let that put you off.
You can also access free courses on line via the Skills Toolkit National Careers Service in a range of subjects. There is a great search ability so you can search what courses are there to fit around your availability and needs.
Anne Brewster 50Plus Champion for North East Yorkshire and The Humber said: “There is a lot of opportunity now to train for the new emerging jobs and careers.
“No matter what your age you can try new things and the Skills Bootcamps particularly are a fantastic way of gaining those required skills in just 16 weeks.
“I heard of some great case studies lately of people taking up a Skills Bootcamps post 50 years of age, and they have a real change of career, which will support them financially until they choose to retire.
“The Skills Toolkit is also worth investigating, the more skills you can have the better chance of getting a job with increased pay.
“Learning is also good for our brains as the brain muscles grow stronger, always good for later life.
“If you are starting out on your working life, or any age wanting to look at a new career there are opportunities now.
“Do some research, consider your options and it could be a chance to progress in an exciting new career.”
ACOLLECTION of signed limited edition prints of the paintings of Beryl Cook, one of the nation’s favourite artists of the past half-century, is to go under the hammer in a two day auction on April 5 and 6.
I say one of “the nation’s” favourite artists advisedly because much of the art establishment was very snooty about the work of the self-taught onetime Plymouth seaside boarding house landlady who didn’t even pick up a paintbrush until she was into her thirties.
Art critics may have been sniffy but Beryl’s humorous depictions of hen nights, girls on the town, life in the pub, dancers, drag acts and the rest, propelled her to the status of national treasure very quickly after her first sellout exhibition in Plymouth in 1975 when she was 49 years old.
The collection that we’ll be putting under the hammer was brought together by a local fan of Beryl Cook’s work and extends to fifteen of the 40 signed limited edition prints that were issued between 1977 and her death in 2008.
The collection includes one of her most famous paintings – Girls In a Taxi – a group of girls on a night out in Plymouth climbing into a cab.
The print is number 228 of a limited edition of 300 that was published in 1980. It is now classified as ‘very rare’ and tends to make into four figures at auction.
Beryl travelled widely, carrying cards in her handbag that she used to quickly record the things she was seeing. That resulted in pictures like ‘Tango in Bar Sur,’ a couple dancing in a Buenos Aires bar.
The original painting sold a few years back for $27,000 (£21,000). Fortunately our signed print – number 418 of a limited edition of 650 published in 1993 – is expected to go for a bit less, probably just a hundred or two.
And there was good news for Cook fans who find limited edition prices a bit too much for the budget at the moment. Scarcely had those arrived in the saleroom than a collection of unsigned Cook prints was entered by a separate vendor. Unsigned prints do of course sell for more modest sums.
Another highlight of the auction is an original painting by the great Ukrainian-born architect and artist Anatole Krasnyanski (1930-2023), a man who was said to have escaped from the Soviet Union to America in the 1970s ‘with little more than the paintbrushes hidden in his boots.’
In the United States, Krasnyanski achieved success on multiple artistic fronts, not least in the film industry, as a set designer for Universal Studios on movies such as the Blues Brothers and Battlestar Galactica.
The painting going under the hammer is Rostov Kremlin, a water and acrylic work dated 1996 that was used to produce a limited edition serigraph (print) two years later.
The catalogue for the auction on April 5 and 6 will be going on line shortly (www.pottersauction.co.uk). It’s a spectacular sale with strong entries across ceramics, silver, jewellery, autographs, cameras and fine fishing equipment.